Special Issue of Human-Computer Interaction: Open Design at the Intersection of Making and Manufacturing (2018)

Website: HCIJ
Deadline for Proposals: 15 December 2017

Edited by David Green (University of West England), Verena Fuchsberger (University of Salzburg), Nick Taylor (University of Dundee), Pernille Bjørn (University of Copenhagen), David Kirk (Northumbria University), Silvia Lindtner (University of Michigan).

Open design refers to the design, development, and distribution of products and systems
that are enabled through publicly accessible, shared information resources. It suggests
alternative models of ownership, production and consumption that align with new
approaches to value-creation such as ‘remix’ and ‘commons-based peer-production’, as
well as ideological notions such as post-capitalism, libertarian socialism, anti-imperialism,
and communitarianism.

This special issue aims to evidence and articulate key challenges and opportunities for the
global maker environments comprising of mixed networks of private, public, and
professional design and production; where maker culture meets professional, industrial
manufacturing and where open design meets other forms of ideological openness and
alternative approaches to design and production.

Further details available here.